{"product_id":"9780007149537","title":"The Age of Wonder : How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Holmes, Richard \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 03\/09\/2009,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 380 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780007149537,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes’s dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The book opens with Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cook’s first Endeavour voyage, who stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769 fully expecting to have located Paradise. Back in Britain, the same Romantic revolution that had inspired Banks was spurring other great thinkers on to their own voyages of artistic and scientific discovery – astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical – that together made up the ‘age of wonder’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In this breathtaking group biography, Richard Holmes tells the stories of the period’s celebrated innovators and their great scientific discoveries: from telescopic sight to the miner’s lamp, and from the first balloon flight to African exploration.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54882460959093,"sku":"9780007149537","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780007149537.jpg?v=1734432928","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780007149537","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}